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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Aircraft Tu-16

Tu-16 (NATO: Badger - «Badger") - a Soviet long-range
twin-engine jet bomber bomber. Produced in various versions, including a
missile-carrying version of the aircraft - tanker aircraft electronic warfare,
and other serially produced from 1953 to 1963 with three aircraft factories.

Was in service with the Soviet Union, Russia and CIS countries for nearly 50
years. It is also in service with Egypt, Iraq and Indonesia. Produced
under the name Xian H-6 in the People's Republic of China. During the
production was created more than a thousand TU-16.

For decades, the Tu-16 has remained the main aircraft in the aviation component
of strategic deterrence forces of the USSR. Tu-16 naval aviation fulfilled
the task of tracking and support the U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups in the
whole Northern Hemisphere. Sometimes these flights have led to accidents
and disasters. Thus, May 25, 1968 in front of the sailors carrier
"Essex" was killed spy plane of the Northern Fleet in the Norwegian
Sea. According to some Russian sources, July 26, 1980 a couple of scouts
Pacific Fleet lost one of the planes under mysterious circumstances at the time
of tracking U.S. aircraft carrier in the Sea of ​​Japan.According to Western
reports, the accident occurred on June 27 (maybe a typo in the source, it
should be July 27) at 13 hours and 50 minutes to Tokyo time in front of the
Japanese sailors landing ship "Nemuro." When you turn right at
the height of the plane caught ultra wing of the water. As a result of the
search and rescue operations, the Japanese Coast Guard in the day lifted from
the water bodies of two pilots and third parts of the body.

During the 1967 Six Day War, Israeli Air Force, through the use of the element
of surprise, and destroyed on the ground 30 Tu-16, the Egyptian Air Force, and
an Iraqi bomber was shot down over Israel. Egyptian planes were parked in
the open and killed Israeli napalm and cluster bombs during the flight along
the taxiway strip. After that, the entire Soviet military aviation began
to be translated kaponirnye parking.

In the Arab-Israeli war of 1973, Egyptian Tu-16 was limited involvement by
issuing a total of 25 missiles, the DAC-2 and DAC-11 of which have achieved
their objectives only 5. Lost two aircraft, both crews were killed.

Tu-16 bombers also took part in the Iran-Iraq War, based on an air base near
al-Walid the Syrian border, and occasionally taking part in raids on Iranian
cities.

During the Afghan War, the Tu-16 has repeatedly been used to bomb
Afghanistan. In April 1984, aircraft of the 200th Heavy Bomber Regiment
participated in the Panjshir operation to suppress the mujahedin factions of
Ahmad Shah Massoud. Along with the Tu-22M bombers and tactical aircraft of
the 40th Army, they have created unprecedented in the history of the density of
the air above the Panjshir Valley - Bagramskogo airfield surveillance radar is
designed to accompany the 100 targets simultaneously, "choking" on
overload.The main armament of the Tu-16 during this operation were
high-explosive bombs OFAB-250.

In the summer of 1986 before the long-range aircraft was tasked to suppress the
strong points of the Mujahideen, located in the caves. Bombing
conventional gauges does not work, because the caves were carved in stone and
concrete. It was decided to use the worst of the production of
conventional bombs - FAB-9000, an analogue of the British Grand Slam. By
the time the only aircraft of the Soviet Air Force, which could be FAB-9000,
was the Tu-16. The task set before the 251st Heavy Bomber Regiment of the
White Church. Heavy bombing of land-mines on the slopes gave an impressive
effect: the gathering of hundreds of tons of rock buried the mouth of the cave
and approaches to them on the bottom of the gorges were falling cornices, few
roads and trails rested on piles of rocky boulders, and to find workarounds to
the enemy had to spend a week.